58 ON AND OFF THe AVeNUe __ WHILE the 05- , _' : trich-plumed \i!:....:,. I:: '. 1 and Persian-dra p ed .... 1\ ,'1 0 , \' :::: ',-:/,;:[ " prestige fashions of .' =i .. 0.'" ". .: .. . '\' ":) '.{\i the more elegant de- (),;" .. . .. :c,. , :: signers have presum- ably been dazzling everyone in to reaching for her smoked glasses, some of the shops-Mary Lewis, De Pinna, and Jaeckel, to be specific-have been prosaically but en- terprisingly enlarging this or that de- partment or starting a brand-new one. In these establishments, there are plen- ty of things for women who like their clothes tailored, simple, and practical, but without any dreary functional look. I might as well start with Mary Lewis, at 746 Fifth Avenue (57th). She has, in her ground-floor sports shop, short-sleeved dresses, buttoned down the front and made of Botany flannel in nice colors, at $25; wool gabardine suits with turnover collars and kick-pleat skirts, at $59.95; and wool suits in muted checks, wìth match- ing topcoats, at $39.95 each. There's also a frontiersman jacket, complete with fringe on the yoke and fashioned of light- or dark-brown suède, that country dwellers will love. Up on the fourth floor, you will find good win- ter coats, most of them three-quarter length. Among them are such thìngs as navy or gray belted wools with tipped Australian opossum collars, lime-green or gray suède cloth double-breasted box coats lined with white curly lamb, and (to give you a real polar-bear look) a creamy, sheared lamb made into a col- larless greatcoat with loose sleeves that, if you like, can be rolled back to produce mammoth cuffs. Miss Lewis hasn't for- gotten the growing girl (or boy) , either. Up another flight, in a department which now takes up the whole fifth floor, there are children's clothes for ages nine months to twelve years that should give the most graceless tomboy poise. F or ages up to six, there are corduroy overalls in various colors. Re- versible rain-or-shine coats (plaid wool on one side, cotton gabardine on the oth- er) come in sizes three to fourteen; Red Riding Hood gabardine rain capes in sizes three to six are $ 5.95. Little boys' E ton. suits, sizes two to six, appear in blue or tan herringbone tweed and in navy or coffee-colored Shetland or navy flannel ($12.95), and there are broth- er-and-sister woollen coats for tin) chil- FE.MININE. FASHIONS dren, to be worn with zippered leggings. The girls' have nutria balls dangling from the tie at the throat and cost, with the leggings, $19.95; the boys' are very masculine, with fly fronts and slit pockets, and cost $17.95. And there are furred bonnets or caps with ear laps to match. \Vhatever you see on this floor is, in fact, the polite, circumspect sort of children's things not easy to find today at reasonable prices. _ De Pinna's spectatDr-sports depart- ment has a lot to offer in the way of simple clothes softened with a bit of dressmaker detail. The d;esses start at $29.95 and come in many colors. A swell cinnamon-brown that De Pinna calls Baba Rhum seems to be the favor- ite. There are gabardine dresses with '-' surplice bodices, real snakeskin belts, and soft pleats down the fronts of the skirts. They are in, among other colors, ba- nana, which is nice to wear with nutria. The wool dresses here may have heart- shaped necks and golden buttons from there to the hem. There are wonderful tailored suits, starting at $49.95, lots of them in bright colors, such as Kelly green or royal blue flecked with black. If you're after an expensive ensemble, you can have one with a short, fitted jacket (whose detail is worked out to give the illusion of revers), a simple skirt (also with detail.at the waistline), and a long, fitted topcoat with pleats down the centre back. Ah! The shop likes this best in Baba Rhum wool with a gold jersey blouse. ..A..nd, in case you have been homésick for Balmaccan coats, they are here-in wool, lined -------- ----- v- ::;::;:- . J .,.4 ) rr;:. } J C- V '''!' . - lt - L\ ( f JIî.Jí\ ] f m,f\ ":\ \ ;;- ( ' ,: ( ( /- '\ (\ ...1\. /lVIII ,'" " \) -,.,2t4 ))!ð ).)11' ð1 ) -;::=-ï - , I I '{ B f l I) J ! 1-\ j \ I:: I J {'1' J t ,HiSì L 'OCJ J t<l/,..t>P 7 1 'l '3f I - - - l_ -==--=-- -==---- - fClÂùD&- "N ow, in this one, the straight whiskeys are five years or more old-forty per cent straight whiskeys, sixty per cent grain neutral spirits-twenty per cent straight whzskey five years old, fourteen per cent straight whiskey six years old, six per cent straight whiskey seven years old!"